Today is the feast of Saint Hyacinth, (the Latinized form of the Polish name Jacek), the founder of the Order of Friars Preachers in Poland. Born into the noble Odrowaz family in the year 1185, he was made a prebendary canon at Sandomir after completing his studies in both canon law and theology. While accompanying his uncle, the bishop of Krakow, to Rome in 1218, he met St Dominic; on seeing the
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